Seperate Hard Drive For Music Apps., Does it matter? Options

[gorillacake]

I've heard it's good to make a seperate hard drive or use a divider or something for all your music apps. because it frees up memory and makes your computer go faster. wheeee! How do you do this? I'm pretty new to mac's and maybe a little ignorant about computers in general. Thanks in advance.

[rickenbacker]

I'll have to read this SOS FireWire report, as I'd like to know all the options available and see the test results etc. I don't know much about other FireWire drives, but I had a Glyph Companion on loan for a couple of weeks and loved it. I'd like to buy one permanently but they're so bloody expensive and I'm in the middle of buying a house.

As for the size, I think 80GB is enough storage space for me - that's more than enough for all the multitrack files for a couple of albums at least. After that point, I'd be backing them up to CD-R or whatever anyway because all drives can potentially fail, however big or expensive they are.

I know the Companion seems expensive, but believe me the build quality is excellent - it's the Rolls Royce of hard drives! It uses a special composite metal (used by only one other company in the world!) for optimum cooling properties - the fan only came on once when I used it, so it's also incredibly quiet. It's fast, full duplex, 7200 rpm spindle rate, uses the 911 chipset, blah blah blah.

Anyhow, this isn't a Glyph product placement - I just know that it's a really, really good choice for a FireWire drive. And I think a separate FireWire drive has to be the best option for audio at the moment - used just for storing the files. Have your sequencer app on the computer's hard drive and flow your audio back and forth to your external FireWire drive.

Well, that's what I do and it works for me!